Fastening of railway-rails to sleepers.



E. HUD0N. FASTENING 0F RAILWAY RAILS .T0 SLEEPERS.

APPLICATION FILED DECJO. I911.

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' FASTENING OF RAILWAY RAILS T0 SLEEPERS.

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UNITE 1| STAENT EDWARD HUDSON, OF LEEDS, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD HUDSON AND WALTER SKELTON HUDSON, BOTH OF LEEDS, ENGLAND.

FASTENING 0F RAILWAY-RAILS TO SLEEPERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1918.

Application filed December 20, 1917. Serial No. 208,016.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD HUDSON, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Leeds, in the county of York, England, have invented Improvements in the Fastening of Railway-Rails to Sleepers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in means for fastening rails to metal sleepers more especially in connection with narrow gage light railways.

According thereto the sleepers, which may be of the usual inverted trough or other shape, have pairs of holes formed at the proper distance apart by cutting and turning up tongues of the metal of the sleeper, the rails being laid between the adjacent tongues and being fastened in position by means of clips of more or less U shape inserted in the holes so as to overlap the feet of the rails and the metal of the sleeper and wedges driven between the feet of the rails and the overhangin limbs of the clips. The tongues serve as a utments for the clips, which are of known type, while the Wedges are being driven and the tongues of each pair of holes are usually at opposite sides of the holes so that the wedges can be driven in opposite directions, or if convenient the florllgues may be formed at each side of each o e.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention, Figure 1 being a side view of a portion of rail fastened to a sleeper, Fig. 2 I

a view at right angles to Fig. 1 partly in section, and Fig. 3 a plan; Figs. 4:, 5, and 6 are respectively a side view, end view and plan of a sleeper, Figs. 7, 8 and 9 are similar views of a clip. Figs. 10 and 11 are respectively a side View and a plan of a wedge.

The sleeper a is formed near each end with a pair of holes by stamping and turning up tongues b in opposite directions transversely of the sleeper; or if convenient each hole may have two tongues turned up in opposite directions transversely of the sleeper. The rail 0 which is fiat bottomed, fits between the tongues and through each hole the lower limb of a clip cl is passed as shown, a lug al at the rear of the clip resting upon the sleeper; in this position the clip lies against the tongue 7) which steadies it as the wedge e is driven between its upper limb and the foot of the rail; The wedges may be of equal width with a gradual taper in depth or with increased width toward the front end as shown in Figs. 10 and 11.

What I claim is Means for fastening rails to sleepers comprising a sleeper with pairs of holes formed by turning up out of the metal of the sleeper tongues between which the rails are laid and the rails being fastened in position by clips inserted in the holes so as to overlap the rail feet and wedges driven between the feet of the rails and the overlapping limbs of the clips, substantially as described.

Signed at Leeds, Yorkshire, England, this 19th day of November, 1917.

EDWARD HUDSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Gommissloner of Patents,

. Washington, D. G." 

